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The Implications of "NATO Forces 2020” for Alliance Burden-Sharing: U.S. Pivot to Asia, NATO Pivot to "Operational Readiness”?

Marton, Péter (2014) The Implications of "NATO Forces 2020” for Alliance Burden-Sharing: U.S. Pivot to Asia, NATO Pivot to "Operational Readiness”? In: FLACSO-ISA Joint Conference, 2014. július 23-25., Buenos Aires, Argentína. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

After a brief overview of prominent issues currently concerning observers of the NATO Alliance, this early draft of a paper seeks to understand NATO member states’ calculations in the present strategic context, as may be derived from International Relations Theory. In particular, the aim is to assess, in a theoretical manner, member-state interaction in the field of burden-sharing, and what this may tell us of the Alliance’s prospects in the wake of the “US pivot to Asia” and other recent and relevant developments. The article’s thesis advanced here is that the exploitation of the big by the small, often assumed in the literature on burden-sharing, has not necessarily been the case throughout the history of NATO, and that currently an uncertain future awaits as to the transatlantic alliance and its fundamental burden-sharing arrangements. Various different trajectories are conceivable depending on the operating assumptions and interpretive frameworks used by present and future decision-makers.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Subjects: J Political Science / politológia > JA Political science (General) / politológia általában
J Political Science / politológia > JZ International relations / nemzetközi kapcsolatok, világpolitika
Depositing User: Dr. Péter Marton
Date Deposited: 23 Sep 2014 19:46
Last Modified: 23 Sep 2014 19:46
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/16277

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